There are only three persons holding each rank of General, Vice Senior General and Senior General, all in the Army. They are General Thura Shwe Mann (Army), Vice Senior General Maung Aye (Army) and Senior General Than Shwe.

All the other top officers in the Army hold only the rank of Lieutenant General and lower.

The Navy and has only one person each holding the rank of Vice Admiral. He is Vice Admiral Soe Thein (Navy).

All the other top officers of the Navy hold only the rank of Rear Admiral and below.

The Air Force has only one person holding the rank of Lieutenant General. He is Lieutenant General Myat Hein (Air Force).

All the other top officers of the Air Force hold the rank of Major General and below.

does anyone know the literal translations of the burmese ranks...i know that most east asian countries are heavily influenced by the chinese rank system and the burmese lower and middle officer ranks certainly seem to me to be pronunciation variants of the chinese, but the general ranks look very different

i know a couple of the guys on here have given translations for the chinese and japanese ranks so im hoping you can help out this time too

We cannot choose the hour of our death. But we can choose what to do with the time we are given.

I decided to update the Burmese/Myanmar ranks. They also have gold dress shoulder boards for the generals. I haven't seen gold for field grade or company grade officers. So I'll attempt the gold ones soon.

The large "star device" is difficult to get a good image of but I think I have captured the essence here as well as I can.

If you need a better image of the Burmese ranks I might be able to help from my archive. From what I've seen the "three star" rank has the stars all the same size, and arrange not in a triangle but in a straight line.